Personally I like broswer detection scripts. I use a 'high-standards' version, where I won't accept anything below firefox 3, IE8 and similar. The key thing is to make sure you direct people to a message explaining why they weren't able to see your site and how they can upgrade (rather than just stone-walling them).
These days installing browsers is f*ing ridiculously easy, and most operating systems prompt or automate the process. So my logic is that users have a duty to keep their browser up to date - otherwise a minority are holding back the website (and indeed the entire web) for everybody. The broad range of available browsers has created an environment where it is now the job of the browsers to accomodate US as developers (gone are the days of having to bend over backwards to get IE6 working!) - because users have demonstrated they will happily jump ship to platforms with the best user experience. Hence why IE went from a market share of 95% in 2003 to 60% in 2010 :) On Jul 25, 8:56 am, Pil <[email protected]> wrote: > Browser sniffers are generally not a good practice. Even in this case > I wouldn't use them nor recommend them for the follwing reasons: > > IE 7 is supported whereas IE 6 is not. There is not much difference > between those out-dated browsers, so I'd expectt that IE 6 can in fact > execute and diplay most of the maps features. > > FF 3+ is supported whereas FF 2 is not. FF 2 is (compared to IE 6 and > 7) a highly develepod and modern browser. So I'd expect that FF 2 is > able to display all of the maps without problems. > > Opera isn't officially supported althought it's a modern and up to > date browser - although with slight failures here and there. All in > all I think it's not a sufficient reason to exclude this browser > because it isn't supported. > > There are a few other Mozilla flavoured browsers whose abilities can > be compared with newer Firefoxes, althought their identity > (i.e .userAgent string) is different. Again no good idea to exclude > them. > > On Jul 24, 9:28 pm, Joseph Elfelt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Oops - Looks like a space sneaked into the link to the browser detect > > code snip. Try this one: > > htttp://www.mappingsupport.com/forum_post/browser_detect.txt- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
